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High School pressure (Korea)
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| Goashem |
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/08/news/korea.php
Sorry, cant copy paste the article. if people are too lazy to read heres the gist of the article:
students in south korea are protesting against examinations claiming it puts too much pressure on them and encourages to step over their friends. many choose suicide, which is now the second most common cause of death for teenagers aged 15-19.
Now i thought i had it bad! these kids spend their entire high school life basically in high school! (from 7:40 to 10:00 according to the article).
Whats the difference in the quality of a korean high school education and a canadian? and if its not a big one (which i persume it isnt), why must korea keep students under such a pressure all the time? |
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| Yoepus |
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
"Information is not knowledge."
Albert Einstein
Sad that people can not comprehend that book smarts does not make smart people.:( |
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| Dervish |
| The solution is obvious, adopt a more American aproach. Have more student sex parties. :D |
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| Goashem |
| nice. we need a lobbying group for that in every country! |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
| Although koreans do have school system that might easily be described as too strict, I do not think that the US system is the one they should be striving towards, as it is just an opposite extreme. I've been in highschools both in US and Croatia and I can say that I honestly don't know what those kids were doing for the first 8 or so years of education. I mean, I could accept if they had no idea where Croatia is, but some of them didn't know where Europe was. Aside from that, their overall knowledge of subjects like math, physics, chemistry, etc. was almost non-existant. So although I agree that information does not mean knowledge, not knowing anything is certainly not a guarantee of wisdom either. |
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| Lepanto |
the only problem i see with the US system is outa my own experience which is that teachers don't bother teaching and students don't bother learning. futhermore, the jump from high school studies to college studies is HUGE. but then again look at Russia. (thos of you who know) Russia has an extremely hard school system, they take both physics and chemistry for 5 years at the same time. Yet, that doesn't do much, now does it?
but we're talking about Korea. The suicide thing is pretty damn scary.
Also, the only subject that American school system if weak in is geography, not history, along with math...MAYBE. |
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| Goashem |
| but those same kids go to recieve education in the finest universities in the world. those that do get in must know quite a bit. therefore i dont think the US education system is all that bad. |
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| ali92 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Goashem
but those same kids go to recieve education in the finest universities in the world. those that do get in must know quite a bit. therefore i dont think the US education system is all that bad. |
At university-level, it's fine in the US. The real problems exist in the primary & secondary levels. I heard that it's maths, science, and geography that the US is bad on when compared to other indistrialised nations.
I do know that whilst the final amout of education is still lacking, private schools do give better educations than their free, state-run 'public' counter-parts in the US. (I learned more in just one year of private secondary/high school than I would have in three years of public secondary/high school.)
I could easily see advocateing just getting rid of public/state-run school in the US and just go private completely and have the student take loans & grants out (as well as get scholarships for the 'mentally gifted' (which itself is another joke in this country)) like in university... |
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| Arbiter |
Utter foolishness, but it is totally of their own doing, so it's difficult to sympathize.
Anyway, no one is forcing them to push themselves so much. They could always just stop obsessing over how much material wealth they'll be able to accumulate later in life. You either think it's worth the cost, and you do your best to pay it, or you don't. |
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| h0tsweetbabyd0l |
japan and korea = same thing same problem
suicide is the first causis of death among teenagers in japan too much pressure and competition .....:( |
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| Sunsnail |
| I'm not feeling the motivation to study hard and make good grades in high school. |
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| DaveSZ |
The US has many of the finest and most preeminent colleges and universities in the world, as well as some of the worst public secondary schools in the world.
It's quite a dramatic dichotomy, and I would not recommend for South Korea to adopt the present US system. |
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